Berkeley spectacu- lar, since both, after all, are example[s] of Art Deco choreography."
Other writers, such as Ingrid Sischy and Kay Larson, took the therapeutic tack, and claimed that the Mapplethorpe images "teach us moral lessons, stripping away the veils of prudery and ignorance and thus promoting gay rights confronting us with the outer limits of human sexual behavior." Similar images of women be- ing degraded, Hughes observes, would not likely be greeted so calmly.
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